A beautiful Peregrine sat on the east side of middle this morning (left).
The wind had moderated during the night but the Leach's Petrels (below) kept on coming, 107 counted in 7 hours over the tide.
After several duck species yesterday just 29 Common Scoter and 2 Wigeon today plus a fine male Long-tailed Duck that flew east towards the Wirral coast. Four Brent were again off the island but more unexpected 'seabirds' were 2 Merlins!
Distractions from the pleasure of watching the petrels were 18 Great Crested Grebes, 7 Red-throated Divers, 6 Manx Shearwaters, 4 Kittiwakes, 2 Little Gull, 4 Arctic Tern, several Sandwich Tern (below), a Gannet, an Arctic Skua (with 3 others too distant to identify), and a second winter Mediterranean Gull.
After several duck species yesterday just 29 Common Scoter and 2 Wigeon today plus a fine male Long-tailed Duck that flew east towards the Wirral coast. Four Brent were again off the island but more unexpected 'seabirds' were 2 Merlins!(DB,ME,AEH,CJ,KMc,WRS,DNW,PGW,AW + 2 L.O.C.) Peregrine Photo by WRS other photos by CJ
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